Documentarist Wilhelm Gaube marks a unique case; a resident of Vienna for well over 40 years, Gaube harbored an ongoing fascination with that city's art scene, but opted to permanently fix his cameras on the artists themselves in lieu of the works they create. What most interested Gaube was the creative process, and he sought to explore those elements through his nonfiction films. Though Jörg Burger's offbeat documentary Actually Everything is Completely Different never once glimpses Gaube onscreen, it consciously and pointedly pays homage to that director by attempting to apply his technique without falling into the trap of note-for-note reproduction.

~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide